क़दमों में बुला लो

Listed on the surviving HMV catalogue for 'Salma' (1943), Nazir's Hind Pictures social drama, this number's title — a plea to be called close to the beloved's feet — carries the devotional-romantic submission common to the era's love songs. Music is by Pandit Gobind Ram, lyrics by Hasrat Lakhnavi. The track appears in the Saregama (HMV) album listing; its singer is not securely documented.

In keeping with the soundtrack's romantic core, Gobind Ram would have set such a supplicatory lyric to a slow, devotional sway — harmonium and sarangi shading a humble melodic line over a soft tabla pulse, the prayer-like mode of his gentler 1940s compositions.